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            <title>Universal Truths and Cycles: An Appreciation of Robert Pollard and Guided by Voices</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The incredibly prolific Pollard has released over 100 albums, whether under the Guided By Voices name or via any number of side projects and solo recordings. Author Daniel de Visé walks us through some of the highlights.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Daniel de Visé</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>2022-08-17</dc:date>
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            <title>Five Microgenres of the 21st Century</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As genres become increasingly fluid and experience more overlap and crossover, the boundaries have gotten fuzzier, with the notion of the genre itself coming into question.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Lucy Mao</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>2022-08-10</dc:date>
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            <title>Recent Classical Highlights</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Recent classical reviews include Hugo Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch -- recently recorded by Allan Clayton, Carolyn Sampson, and Joseph Middleton -- which turns Italian poetry into German art songs, and Latvian Gidon Kremer (pictured) expanding cultural awareness on the new PPP: Plakidis, Pētersons, Pelēcis album.]]></description>
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            <dc:date>2022-08-02</dc:date>
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            <title>The Launch of MTV: &quot;People's 'Feel-Good Hub'&quot;</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On August 1st, 41 years will have passed since the initial launch of MTV in the US. To mark this anniversary, we share a section from Greg Prato's book <strong>MTV Ruled the World: The Early Years of Music Video</strong>, which details the channel's initial launch, its immensely catchy theme song (played at the top of each hour), and its slow build to success. ]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Greg Prato</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>2022-07-27</dc:date>
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            <title>Five Obscure Debut Albums from Famous Artists</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Success often takes more than one try, and even our favorite artists sometimes taste failure at the beginning. AllMusic looks at five debut albums that didn't really hit their mark, but the musicians found their to megastardom despite these inauspicious starts.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Lucy Mao</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>2022-07-18</dc:date>
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            <title>In Defense of Jethro Tull: Revisiting Ian Anderson's Greatest Songs</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Jethro Tull catalog cries out for reappraisal. Here, then, is an album-by-album overview of Ian Anderson's greatest songs, stopping in the mid-1980s, when Tull settled into a folk-rock maturity, producing fewer stylistic troughs but also fewer compositional peaks.]]></description>
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            <dc:date>2022-07-12</dc:date>
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            <title>The 2022 BET Award Winners: Music Categories</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While the BET award nominations span multiple entertainment fields, music categories constitute the bulk of them, and this article reveals which artists took home the honors in each.         ]]></description>
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            <dc:date>2022-07-07</dc:date>
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            <description><![CDATA[Among the classical highlights in June is an arrangement of Nazareno by Gonzalo Grau of music from Osvaldo Golijov's La Pasión segun San Marcos (2000), made in 2009 for the performers here, the veteran sister duo pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque (pictured).]]></description>
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            <dc:date>2022-07-05</dc:date>
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            <title>Re-Covered: 5 More Popular Songs that are Actually Covers</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By popular demand, AllMusic takes a look at songs made popular by Santana, Natalie Imbruglia, They Might Be Giants, and Brothers both Isley and Righteous, as well as the stories behind the originals.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Lucy Mao</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>2022-06-30</dc:date>
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            <title>The Origin of the Striped Design of Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstrat</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstrat is one of the most famous guitars in rock history, and author Greg Prato analyzes when and how the legendary guitarist assembled his now-instantly identifiable axe.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Greg Prato</dc:creator>
            <dc:date>2022-06-28</dc:date>
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